A final investigation into a 2016 air crash in Pakistan found that three technical faults caused the accident that killed all 47 on board, the country’s civil aviation authority said on Thursday. The crash killed everyone on board, including Junaid Jamshed, a famed rock star-turned-Muslim evangelist. Citing a final report from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board (AAIB), Pakistan’s civil aviation authority in a statement said there were “three latent faults”. The faults, according to the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board (AAIB) report, included the fracture of one of the engine’s power turbine blades, a broken pin and “probably pre-existing contamination” inside a propeller valve. The national carrier was barred from flying to Europe and the United States after Pakistan’s civil aviation regulator named dozens of pilots as holding allegedly dubious licences.

Source: The Hindu November 19, 2020 22:07 UTC